Thursday, July 15, 2010

We know Molly Knight is a fine writer, and we know she's a Dodger fan. So it couldn't have been an especially joyful assignment for her to write a detailed account of the McCourts' sad and turbulent divorce.

Yet she's done just that — and she's written perhaps the best article so far on the subject. You'll read this article and feel the pain of all Dodger fans, but you'll also understand the McCourts a little more too.

Reading between the lines, i have deduced that Jeff Kent, acting as an agent for the Giants, was boning Jamie (she loves bad mustaches and fibbing about wrist injuries), got Ned hired so that he could trade away our best talent and create huge long-term financial obligations to players who no longer play for the Dodgers and he got himself paid, to boot. His tears at his retirement press conference were actually tears of laughter, shed at the thought of his off-field activities screwing the Dodgers more than his terrible range at second ever could.

Agree with all the sentiments expressed in the comments thus far, but would also note that if we ever got a peek behind the scenes of any ownership inner workings, we'd probably see similar thoughts (raising tickets prices, figuring new ways to profit) given that this whole thing is, after all, a business. Not to let the McCourts off the hook by any stretch of the imagination...I guess what I'm saying is that they are all gougers who play off fans' love for the game, and we're just happening to see that thinking for our own team aired as dirty laundry. I'm sure there are and have been similar plans in the inner sanctum of the Yankees front office, as well as from the Royals.

I agree about the ticket price point, but every other email I get now is for some sort of discount on tickets. I got one today (from the Dodgers mind you, not Goldstar or anything like that) offering Field Level MVP/VIP tix for $45 (normally $120). Clearly they recognize they have a problem getting people in the gate, but it seems like they're applying a patch to the problem rather that fix it at the foundation.